Published 9:24 pm, Monday, December 21, 2009

A Westport resident, Wheeler has practiced as an advanced practice psychiatric nurse specializing in trauma for the past 25 years. She is certified as a clinical specialist in adult psychiatric-mental health nursing and is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner. She has additional certifications in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, hypnosis, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.

- Karan Sampson has joined Connecticut Marcum LLP's Alternative Investment Group in Greenwich as director of business development. Sampson has worked in the alternative arena since 1993. As managing director of her consulting firm, KSD Consulting, Sampson designed business expansion and operational best practices for hedge funds. Before KSD Consulting, she headed the hedge-fund relationship management focus at Greenwich Associates, an international research-based consulting firm servicing the institutional financial services market.

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